Word: direst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what we have become: the first global economic entity, a fascinating state arrived at through no end of cleverness but a state that is ultimately limited by the health and productivity of the natural system in which we live. We can, if we choose to do so, prove Malthus' direst prognostications wrong...
...virtually invisible--a self-protective mechanism he put into place after he was shot. He makes few speeches, shuns TV, grants almost no interviews and never, ever discusses his friendship with Clinton--with anyone. That discretion magnifies his value because Jordan appears at Clinton's side at the direst of times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard...
...direst threat to Windows hegemony may be Java, the Web-minded programming language created at Sun Microsystems in the early '90s. Java's great strength is its "portability"; in a Java-centric future, developers could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious...
When asked, he said that he often gets requests to make a house call in the dressing room of a performer, but he rarely does this, because of the lack of resources and equipment available in such a setting. "It would take the direst of circumstances," he says, to warrant such a visit...
...enough. So why did Iraq have to dump millions of gallons of oil into the fragile waters of the Persian Gulf and thus devastate its marine life? And set an estimated 650 oil-well fires that spewed untold tons of smoke into the air? Some of the direst predictions, including altered weather patterns across Asia, failed to materialize, and the well fires were put out in only eight months (actually faster than expected). But in Kuwait itself, the air remained acrid the whole time, and the oil that seeped into the sandy soil will stay there for years...